A traveller's alphabet : partial memoirs / Steven Runciman.
| Author/creator | Runciman, Steven |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York, N.Y. : Thames & Hudson, ©1991. |
| Description | 214 pages ; 25 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Athos -- Bulgaria -- Cambodia and Cochin-China -- Damascus -- Egypt -- France -- The Gulf -- Hamburg, Hildesheim, Hesse -- Istanbul -- Japan -- Kodiak Island -- Los Angeles -- Morea, Monemvasia and Mistra -- Nevada -- Orta -- Philippines -- Queensland -- Roumania -- Sarawak -- Thailand -- Ur of the Chaldees -- Vancouver Island -- West Indies -- Xanadu -- Yucatan -- Zion. |
| Abstract | This book is not a serious contribution to travel-literature. [The author has] made no attempt to interpret the way of life in the lands [he has] visited or even to describe the beauties of nature and the works of art to be found there. [His] intention is only to record [his] own experiences in a number of places to which curiosity or circumstances ... have taken [him] ... In order to give some form to these disconnected ancecdotes [the author has] arranged them alphabetically, place by place. -Prologue |
| LCCN | 90071389 |
| ISBN | 050001504X |